St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09

Everybody has heard DANIEL WEBsTER's
story of the New Hampshire parson who put
OH pair of pants in which the wasps had
built nest and did not make the discovery
until he was in the pulpit He had Just an
nounced the beginning of the text "The
spirit of the Lord is in my mouth when
the pesky little fellows got in their work, and
the sentence was concluded with the ex-
clamation, "a nd the devil is in my
breechesi''
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A st. Paul clergyman found himself in
nearly as embarrassing position as the New
Hampshire parson when last Sunday he ap-
pared in the pulpit wearing a pair of fall
trousers which had been hanging in the ward
robe during the long summer vacation. The
waSps had not found them out but moth
erly Old mouse had. She had spread nice
warm couch Of sealskin pluckings in the
right hand pocket of the trousers, into which
an even half dozen of oneday old micelets
had been tucked away. 1t is favorite ges-
ture of the clergyman in question when
about to approach climax in the sermon to
thrust his right hand in his trouser pocket
and elevate the left with the fore finger ex-
tended.
+ SO happened on this particular day
that ELIJAH's translation was the theme.
The good prophet had been followed By the
eloquent preacher until the climax of the as
cension in a chariot of fire was reached,
when the clergyman thrust his right hand
into his trouser pocket. The audience, who
had been hanging on the burning words of
the orator, were no little startled by the sud-
den collapse of the uplifted left hand, the index
finger of which was in the act of pointing to
the gates that were being lifted up to let the
prophet in. The expression of momentary
pang shot across the preachers face as with
convulsive jerk the other hand was brought
up from the pocket. A glance at its contents,
quick squeezing together of the hand. the
light thud of something dropping behind the
pulpit, an amused smile on the face for a
second, and then the glowing theme was re-
sumed. Only those who sat on the front
row in the amen corner heard what the
preacher said when he discovered the mice
in his hand. well, I'll be dog-gonedr was
sufficient.
The usual church prayer for the president
of the United States will be uttered to-day
with unusual fervency. The most ultra op-
position partisan would not for the world
have anything happen to keep the presi-
dent away from ST. Paul tomorrow night
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Is it right to ride to church on Sunday?
Isn't it wrong to keep the hostler and the liv-
eryman and the street car driver in service
on the Sabbath? These are the questions
that a strict Sabbatarian has propounded to
the GLOBE for answer. We have had occa-
sion to say before that this is newspaper
| establishment and not divinity school, and
we are not prepared to answer off hand every
theological query that is fired at US. We take
it for granted that it is right to ride to church
on Sunday, and that it is not wrong to keep
the hostler, the liveryman and street car
driver at work. We say this much, not from
any actual knowledge we possess, but be-
cause the unco' righteous people who are OPP
posed to the Sunday newspaper never evince
any scruples about riding in a carriage or a
| street car on the Sabbath day. They do 1t
| every time rather than walk.